
' Fiel[l§,woo4«i^5. ;o 
Each fowHnthilUnd humble yak 
Shall hear my cheerinS voice ; " .... 



"^^^i^^e Cfiase. 



California Game 

"MARKED DOWN" 

/ 

SCENIC MOUNTAIN WOODLAND tOVERTS, AND 

TIDE-MARSH RESORTS FOR GAME. 

LAKES AND STREAMS 

FOR TROUT, 

AND THE GENEROUS PACIFIC FOR ALL DESIRABLE MARINE 

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPORTING LIFE. 

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ILLUST%4TED. 

piss^sS dcpaIS^Int 
SOUTHERN- PACjFLC\,.COMPANY 

No. 4 MoNtgdtvtEry Street 

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 

1896 






Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896, 

by the 

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, 

in the offce of the Librarian of Congress, 

at Washington, D. C. 



INTRODUCTION. 

One of the writer's earliest sporting memories relates him to following 
at heel of a genuine huntsman and proudly bearing the captives of his gun. 
This was in the wilds of Southern Michigan, antedating the sorrowful 
deportation of the Pottawattamies to the farther west, and when it was 
everywhere daily marked by moccasinedfeet. The mentor had no dog, and 
the agreeable duty that fell to the pupil was that of retriever. Of neces- 
sity it would be a ''still hunt," and the boy's impatient bubbling happiness 
met many a frown of repression. It was his wonder then, as now, how the 
skilled fowler saw game birds, turkeys, ruffed-grouse and quail on their 
feeding-grounds, and the retriever saw nothing. The leader would make a 
stealthy forward movement, with noiseless bough parting, and pause with 
backward wave of commanding hand ; then a step, and as the flushed birds 
took whirring wing, one or more would fall to unerring shot. Fine bags 
were always made; one or two turkeys, an occasional mallard, and a 
nixed dozen or more of prairie hens, ruffed-grouse and quail, with now 
and again samples of hickory and hazel-nut fattened black, gray and fox 
squirrels, hardly esteemed game, but royal on the broiler. 

The apprenticeship was likely to be short, in fact was so ; and 
thereafter for a time no better schooling was attainable than that of 
threading the silent cloisters of Nature, every faculty of soul and body 
under tutelage, the heart not infrequently holding the hand from slaughter 
tor pure love of the noble victim, and sympathy with its small affairs. 
Uncle Toby's lesson had not been lost, " Pursue your way; surely this 
woodland world is broad enough for both of us." And then, half 
wearied by traverse of fern and leaf -cushioned hill and dale, the con- 
venient stream would be sought, rod improvised from thicket of witch- 
hazel, and safely pocket-kept hook and line brought into communication 
with it. For bait a small batrachian caught in the near-by dank meadow- 
land. A shrewd cast would be made into an eddy of the swirling 
current, and like a flash the tautening line reveals the peril of piscine 
hunger ; a brief contest for supremacy, and a five-pound bass or a ten- 
pound pickerel is landed on the mossy bank. The while an envious 
king-fisher, with sharp scream of disapproval, springs in uncertain flight 
from an over-stream decaying limb, and a song thrush clad in sober 

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POTTAWATTAMIE CHIEF. 



Taber Photo. 



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brown with mottled breast, on topmost perch of some tall hickory, re- 
hearses a sylvan opera, combining earth's best notes with dreams of heaven. 




POTTAWATTAMIE MOTHER AND CHII.D, Taber Photo. 



Then follows the leisurely way to rustic home, and breaking a fast that 
for hours had been masked by an absorbing ethereal banquet. 

Does the reader exclaim, " O that may pass for a fancy sketch, but it 



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does not fit Pacific Coast conditions? We have none of your brown- 
coated or be-mottle-vested song-thrushes to trill us their operatic com- 
binations, nor if we had them could we furnish forth a tall hickory for 
musical perch. And where are your noble redmen, and your cloistered 
forests, your turkeys and your ruffed-grouse? Nowhere — a memory of 




WII,D TURKEY. 

Meleagris Gallopavo. 

another generation and another land only, not to say fiction, since that 
word had best be reserved until we come to the scaling of your fish." 

Ah, my friend, you and the sportsman are not cast in the same mold, 
are hardly of the same world. To his sensitive and appreciative sight 
a thousand beauties are revealed unseen of others. His ear is attuned 
to harmonies— only for those born while "the morning stars are singing 
together for joy." 

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The purpose of this paper however is not for reminiscence, but to furnish 
the sportsman with reliable data in regard to each separate game and fishing 
resort named, that he may know in advance what to expect, and within 
reason to meet no disappointment. For the most part the writer has per- 
sonal knowledge, but this has beeen carefully supplemented and extended 
by valuable information obtained from editors, sportsmen, scientists and 
official State papers, and the reader if he so desires can duplicate any 
achievement herein suggested. 




E. W. Currier, Pinxit. 



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CONTRASTS BETWEEN ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC 
COAST FIELDS* OF SPORT. 

In the Eastern and Middle States there has been for years a grow- 
ing complaint of game exhaustion. As to fish, large sums were freely 
devoted to artificial propagation and restocking depleted waters, with 
a resulting halt in their impoverishment. This movement was also 
aided by legislation, narrowing the open seasons and greatly reducing 
the time for sporting enjoyment. Touching this phase of the subject, and 




BOB WHITE OUAII,. 

Cull fins Virgi7iianiis and Pcrdix Virgi)iia?tus. 

also the Pacific Coast contrast to it, rfo apology need be offered for a 
quotation from the facile pen of Doctor David Starr Jordan, President of 
Leland Stanford Jr. University: "Everywhere on the Pacific Slope, in 
every clear stream of the Cascade, the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Range, 
Rocky Mou... ind all their flanking ranges, some variety of trout 

abounds. This region should be the Mecca of anglers, as it is of all 
lovers of the beautiful and the sublime of nature." 

In the East the trout or charr has almost passed away. The trout 
hog has devoured him, and the angler is turning his hand unwillingly to 

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black bass and tarpon, as the successor of Izaak Walton fills his basket 
with gudgeon and chub. Says Myron W. Reed, a veteran angler: 
" This is the last generation of trout fishers. The children will not be able 
to find any. Already there are well-trodden paths by every stream in 
Maine, in New York, and in Michigan. I know of but one river in North 
America by the side of which you will find no paper collar or other 
evidence of civilization. It is the Nameless River. Not that trout will 




RUFFED GROUSE. 
Bonasia Umbelhis. 



PRAIRIE HEN. 
Tetrao Ctipido. 



cease to be. They will be hatched by machinery and raised in ponds, 
and fattened on chopped liver and grow flabby and lose their spots. 
The trout of the restaurant will not cease to be. He is no more like the 
trout of the wild river than the fat and songless reed bird is like the bobo- 

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link. Gross feeding and easy pond-life enervate and deprave him. The 
trout that the children will know only by legend .is the gold-sprinkled 
living arrow of the white water, able to zigzag up the cataract, able to 
loiter in the rapids, whose dainty meat is the glancing butterfly." 

President Jordan then adds: "But on the Pacific Slope the rivers 
are still many and the anglers few. The ' trout-hog ' is with us, but 
Mother Nature is too much for him. For a hundred generations she will 
be strong enough to make good whatever mischief he may do. In 
writing of the trout of California, one does not willingly lay down the pen 
at the end. The most beautiful of fishes, the most charming of lands, 
where the two are connected one wishes to say something better of them 
than has yet been said. It is with regret he lets fall the pen in a confession of 
inability to say it." It is no exaggeration to claim that California has 
thousands of streams the banks of which have never received the impress 
of human foot. There are unsurveyed regions known to contain such, and 
Mr. Reed's Nameless River may well be there. 

The California State Board of Fish Commissioners in its thirteenth 
biennial report, page 20, says: " Tributary to Russian River there are upward 
of fifteen hundred miles of trout water ^ It should be said to the non-resident 
reader, that in comparison with other waters in the State this Russian 
River, with its fifteen hundred miles of trout water, cuts no large figure. 
If withdrawn it would not be missed from ourfluviatile system. The trout 
waters of California are never likely to sing small. We turn from 
consideration of the inland fresh to the saline waters of the Pacific. Cali- 
fornia's extended coast line, its outlying islands, numerous bays, channels 
and estuaries combine to produce unrivaled sea-fishing. Most surprising 
catches may be made in these waters almost anywhere. When a day's 
trolling on the quiet Bay of Monterey, not two miles distant from the beach, 
yields a catch of eighteen salmon of a combined weight of 286 pounds, it 
may be feared that sport merges into commerce. 

Attractions for the gun are in no respect inferior to those for rod and 
line. In the mountain fastnesses bear may be easily found— grizzly and 
black, and his congeners the brown and cinnamon — deer in the foothill*-, 
and quail everywhere ; snipe are very abundant, and in the season wild 
geese in millions that imperil the fields of growing cereals, with ducks 
in large variety, including mallard, canvasback, teal, etc., that give 
bags of half a hundred and more to a day's shooting. Chinese pheasants 

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have been imported in considerable numbers and assigned to the care of 
suitable persons while propagating stock to be set free. They are now strictly 
protected by law, but in due time will be added to the list of game birds. 
Non-resident sportsmen should know that with very rare exceptions, no 
annoyance is suffered from mosquitoes or other insect pests. The excep- 
tions are confined to certain salt marshlands, and in those it is limited to 
shady places and night-time, against which it is easy to guard. 




CAI^IFORNIA MOUNTAIN OUAlIv. 
Oreortyx Pictuss 



CAMFORNIA VALLEY OUAIL. 
Laphortyx Califoriiica. 



CALAVERAS AND TUOLUMNE. 

Rare sport awaits the gun along the line of Milton-Yosemite stage 
road, beginning at Copperopolis and extending to and beyond Big Oak 
Flat, The distance by rail of Southern Pacific Company from San 

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Francisco to'^Milton is 133 fmiles, and a daily stage runs in close connec!- 
tion. The country is an ideal one for fowling, pleasantly rolling, with a 
gradual rise in elevation, an open woodland of oak, pine, laurel and 
buckeye, with suitable growth of underbrush for covert The atmosphere 
is invigorating and the scenery most satisfying to aesthetic tastes. Out 
of Milton the first change of team is at Copperopolis, and soon after 
leaving this latter place game will be seen along the roadside. Choice 
can be made between livery or the stage. The charge in neither 
case will be an unreasonable one, but the stage will be found well 




suited to the purpose of covering the country, since satisfactory arrange- 
ments can be made to stop over at pleasure and resume the trip on a sub- 
sequent day. Attractive farm-houses are easily found for temporary enter- 
tainment, and the people are given to hospitality. The Stanislaus and 
Tuolumne Rivers will be crossed and many old-time Placer mining camps 
visited ; now and again men found yet at work, with more or less profit, 
washing auriferous gravel. 

At all points in great numbers game awaits your coming— quail, 
doves, and squirrels, occasionally a wild pigeon. After crossing historic 

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Moccasin Bar, Rattlesnake Hill must be surmounted, but Priest's fa- 
mous hotel is at the summit, and its promise of good cheer will sus- 
tain the climb. Here and beyond quail are everywhere in evidence. 
If with its balsamic mountain air, inspiriting scenery and abundant 
game the trip grows in satisfaction, as it is likely to do, and you go 
beyond Big Oak Flat to Crockers, you will find a cultivated home with 
all the accessories of refined life, and near-at-hand unfished trout streams 
to be added to your gunning enjoyments. No sportsman could regret a full 
week's outing on these lines, and Yosemite is only half a day's distance 
from Crocker's, with intervening grove of Sequoia giganteas for your 
admiration and tape-line. 



#li^. 



^#^^"*#^S^' 



BLACK BELLIED 
PLOVER. 



CLAPPER 
RAIL. 



VIRGINIA 
RAIL. 



KING 
RAIL. 



KILDEER 
PLOVER. 



Charadnus Squatarola. Rallus Virgmianus. .-Egialitis Voctfetus. 

Rallus Obsoletus. Rallus Elegans. 



NAPA COUNTY. 

THOMPSON'S, ST. HELENA AND CALISTOGA. 

Thompson's, at foot of Napa Valley, by Southern Pacific Company's 
rail forty-two miles from San Francisco, lies near the mouth of Napa 

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River, and affords marshes and feeding-grounds for water fowl as well as 
for snipe, rail and larks, with quail on the nearby uplands. The 
river contains Steel-head, Rainbow and Eastern Brook trout. Striped 
bass and many other desirable fish. When the upward valley trip is 
resumed profitable stops may be made at Yountville, St. Helena and at 
Maple, from each of which points, as at Calistoga, excursions to the hills 
will be rewarded by reasonable bags. From Calistoga, going still farther 
into the hills, deer will be found and good trout streams reached. No- 
where will there be any lack of suitable farm-house entertainment. 

Napa Valley is wooded, like an English park, in magnificent oaks, 
certain of them, quercus lobata, with drooping, far-reaching limbs, and the 
river borders and hillsides with madrona, laurel, buckeye and pine. 




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EL DORADO COUNTY. 

Placerville, the terminal of Southern Pacific Company's line, is sixty 
miles distant from Sacramento. Beginning at Folsom and extending to 
the terminus, a distance of thirty-eight miles, small game is everywhere 
abundant. As the railway train covers the line quail, doves, larks and 
squirrels are to be seen in all favorable places. Good sport can be had by 
stops at Latrobe, Shingle Springs, El Dorado or Diamond. Private 
grounds are not open except upon permission of the owner, but usually 
this can be obtained on proper application. There is no lack of unoccupied 
and public grounds, and sport is by no means at the mercy of churls. 




DUSKY GROUSE. 
Dendragapus Obscurus. 

Fine large bags are easily made. Out of Placerville into the foothills, 
deer are plentiful, and a more extended excursion into the mountains will 
add bear to your trophies. Trout streams well stocked are also found 
with the bear and deer. The foothills are covered by a growth of under- 
brush with oaks, pines, laurel and buckeye. The mountains are heavily 
forested in sugar, yellow and white pine, and a great variety of cypresses, 
cedars, spruce and hemlocks. Any reasonable wish for sport with either 
rod or gun can be had by a visit of a week or two in famed El Dorado. 

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DEER. 

Cervus Vir^inianiis. 



Taber Photo. 




^ Watkins Photo. 

ROCKER WASHING FOR GOIvD. 

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SPRUCE GROUSE. 
Telrao Canadensis. 



PLACER AND NEVADA COUNTIES. 

Roseville Junction is eighteen miles from Sacramento by rail on the 
line of Southern Pacific, looking toward the summit of the Sierra Nevada. 
At any point beyond this for eighty miles and until Cisco is reached, good 
sport can be had with grouse, quail, doves, pigeons, larks and squirrels. 
The country is romantic and very inspiring, full of legends of '49 and 
pioneer achievements. Much of it is battle-scarred in record of old-time 
mining struggles, in which the river and the mountain alike had to sur- 
render their hoarded gold. It is for game, well covered by protecting 
undergrowth and sparingly timbered with oak, pine and the usual small 
arboreal features of the foothills. 

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Pleasant stops for a day or two can be made at Newcastle, Auburn, 
Clipper Gap, Colfax, Dutch Flat and many other places. Bear and deer 
are easily found at points remote from the railway, or other frequented 
lines of travel, and trout streams that will furnish good sport to rod and 
line. Satisfactory entertainment and reasonable rates will be every- 
where met. 




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MOUTHS OF SACRAMENTO AND SAN JOAQUIN. 

Extensive tule and marsh lands border the estuaries of these rivers, 
and are fine feeding-grounds for web-feet and waders. The initial point 
is Antioch, by Southern Pacific Company's rail fifty-five miles from San 
Francisco. This resort extends upwards northerly for a distance of 
thirty miles or more, and can be reached at different points, very con- 
veniently from Brentwood, Byron, Bethany and Tracy. Upon occasion 
immense flocks of wild geese, '* honkers," brant, and white, offer fine 



^ 




WHiTK-FROJNTUD GOOSE. 

Anser Albifrons. 



GREATER SNOW GOOSE. 

Che7t Hyperborea. 



sport, and at all suitable seasons mallard, teal, widgeon, canvasback, 
snipe and rail may be brought to bag, with swan and cranes. Good 
sport also awaits the angler in salmon, striped bass and other bait or 
fly-takers. Pleasant quarters and reasonable rates may be had at any of 
the railway stations named, and as well in many inviting farm houses. 
The uplands are wooded in royal, live and burr oaks, with willow 

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and other moisture loving trees and shrubs along the margins of small 
water-courses. This extensive district, so prolific in water fowl, has an 
added value in nearness to San Francisco and ease of access, the cost 
insignificant and time less than three hours. 




RED-HEAD DUCK. 

Ay thy a Americana. 



CANVAS-BACK LUCK. 

Ay thy a Valisneria. 



KERN COUNTY. 

Bakersfield, its most important and central city, is 314 miles from San 
Francisco by rail of Southern Pacific Company. As an all-round sporting 
field Kern county is perhaps well in the front as leader of the world. 
It covers an immense area of mountain and valley, takes a broad cantle out 
of the Sierra Nevada, with acre for acre of matching valley of San Joaquin. 

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GRIZZLY BEAR. 
Ursus Ferox. 



The mountain district furnishes ideal haunts for bear— grizzly and black, 
brown and cinnamon, with California lions and other feline beasts of 
prey, not to mention wolves and coyotes. Deer are very abundant. 
The mountain and foothill streams, an endless list of them named, and 
others yet to be explored and given a place on the map, literally swarm 
with trout. One of these, Whitney Creek, has recently added that 

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expression of highest piscine beauty, Golden Trout, salmo mykiss aqua 
honi'ta, to the royal family. 

The valley is traversed by Kern River and by numerous other less 
important natural streams of living water, and by an endless network of 
artificial conduits, canals and laterals. In addition to these are severa 
large lakes and reservoirs ; one of them, called Buena Vista, is an im 
mense natural basin that has been artificially assisted to a water capac- 
ity of higher level. The foothills are sparsely wooded with oaks (white 




CALIIORNIA LION. 
Fehs Californica. 

and live), pines, laurel, buckeye and madrona, with underbrush not usu- 
ally so dense as to impede travel. The higher mountains are clad in heavy 
forests of coniferous giants ; the valleys by indigenous white and live 
oaks in open park-like distribution, and the streams bordered by pop- 
lars and willows. Much of the valley covered by artemisia offering 
shelter to small game. Everywhere, in foothills and valley, quail are 
abundant, and this is also true of doves and larks. Very small gunning 
craft is needed to well filled bags. 

For water fowl the favorite resort is Buena Vista Reservoir, before 

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noted. It lies about forty miles southwest of Bakersfield and covers an 
area of more than twenty-five thousand acres ; is surrounded by oak, 
woodland and other trees and shrubs, and in places, by marsh and low- 
lying lands. This lake teems with every variety of water fowl. Wild 
geese whiten the land and water and darken the sky. Of the genus anser 
none are wanting — "honkers," brant, and the white and the grey, all, 
in intermingled confusion, ready to fall at either skilled or unskilled shot 
— swans, pelicans, cranes, canvasbacks, mallards, teal, widgeon, pintail, 
snipe, plover, and rail, not one of them but will respond to call of roll. 




WIDGEON. 

Alareca Americana. 



The market hunter is in evidence, and also his murderous gun of 
unlawful bore ; but Nature, with the Arctic circle for breeding-ground, is 
and will continue to be more than equal to his greed. He slaughters 
thousands, but unslaughtered millions wag their heads at him. In con- 
venient shelter on the banks remains the last certainly known herd of elk 
in California. The same shelter also gives safe retreat to a band of 
antelope. Both of these are strictly protected by law, with a fine of $300 
for killing. Sportsmen will enjoy the sight of these noble and beautiful 
animals, and will not only respect the law themselves but enforce 
it against any who do not. 

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The waters swarm with fish, trout, perch, carp, white fish and cat- 
fish, and many others are to be had. In short throughout the county 
everywhere that water flows or finds a lodgment fish have followed and 
established homelife. A most enjoyable week or more can be spent at 
Buena Vista Lake. It is an ideal place for camping ; but if one so desires 
good-cheer can be had in farm houses, or by permits obtainable at the head 
offices in Bakersfield, still better quarters in one of the Miller & Lux or 
Kern County Land and Water Company's stations near the lake. 

Whitney Creek— Visits to the habitat of Golden Trout can be 
made from two initial points ; the water that has created so royal a fish 
flowing southerly from an ancient volcanic point near Mount Whitney has 
cut its channel deeply into a red or orange colored bed of lava, and the mar- 




DOLLV VARDEX TROUT. 
Salvelimts Malma. 

velous colorings of the fish are in accord with Nature's constant efforts to 
protect her children. Each of the two approaches to Mount Whitney, after 
leaving the cars of Southern Pacific Company, require one day of staging to 
be followed by two days with pack train, and the trip by either of them 
as a romantic mountain outing, can only be matched by the other. From 
the extreme south you leave the cars of the railway at Caliente, 336 
miles from San Francisco, taking the stage every alternate week-day 
morning, and reaching Weldon at the end of a pleasant nine hours' drive, 
during which many fine scenes will be enjoyed, and shots by the way to 
fill a game bag for dinner. 

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Reasonable entertainment awaits at Weldon, with saddle, pack ani- 
mals and guide for the trail to Whitney Creek. Out from Weldon you 
will reach the down-flowing waters from the snows and glaciers of Mt. 
Whitney— finally to end their romantic life in the prosaic work of valley 
irrigation. These will mark your upward way and at all points reveal 
" The lightly-jumpin' glowrin' trouts, 
That thro' the waters play," 

eager for leap at the glancing butterfly, that shall be commissary to 
your creel. The camp for the first night should be near the point of inter- 
section with the trail that comes in from Visalia via Mineral King. 

VISALIA— MINERAL KING TRAIL— This routing for Whitney Creek 
is more traveled than the one by Caliente and Weldon. The railway 
of Southern Pacific Company may be taken to Visalia, or better still 
as saving ten miles of staging, to Exeter, 259 miles from San Francisco, 
on the line from Fresno to Porterville, and by prearrangement take 
stage at this station for Mineral King. The pack train and commis- 
s iry should be engaged in adv^ance, to be in waiting at Mineral King. 
The staging distance from Visalia is sixty-five miles, with ten less if 
taken at Exeter. 

At Mineral King, after a restful night, the pack train will get in 
motion for your anglers' Mecca, to be achieved at the close of two most 
enjoyable days. Fine trout water — streams and lakes— are always under 
observation, and while the guide is making your camp and starting the 
fires, fish can be secured for the feast. It will not be difficult to find 
Golden Trout water that is virgin, but more so to obtain one's consent 
to any early return to prosaic life on the plains. Lovers of gamy trout — 
the veteran angler, Reverend Myron W. Reed, whose skill with rod and 
line is surpassed only by that of his pen, should come here for a new 
sensation, and see his "gold-sprinkled living arrows" in the pure 
mountain waters that gave them birth, and see that this most refining 
sport is not dead— is not decadent even. An official of Tulare County, 
also a member of its Fish and Game Club, writes of a visit by 
him and others as follows: '< Golden Trout are plentiful in Whitney 
Creek. My little twelve-year-old boy caught 125 in one day, on the 
twenty-fourth of August, 1895, with a fly-hook, using no bait." 



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MERCED COUNTY. 

Merced City, its county seat and principal town, is 152 miles by rail 
of Southern Pacific Company from San Francisco. Contiguous to it are 
San Joaquin, Merced and Bear rivers and other streams, together with 
large reservoirs and irrigating canals and laterals. There is considerable 
acreage of low-lying land occasionally overflowed by superabundant irri- 
gation. These conditions combine to form attractions for water fowl, 
so much so that upon occasion market hunters find shooting over it to 




WOOD DUCK. 

Aix Spans a, 

be profitable. Fine bags of geese and ducks are easily made, with 
snipe and rail. Quail can also be obtained in the foothills and contig- 
uous valley lands. Doves, larks and squirrels are plentiful, and deer 
by no means wanting. The foothill streams, including the Merced and 
its tributaries and branches, are well stocked with trout and the San 
Joaquin with trout, salmon, striped bass and catfish. 

Reliance can be safely made on farm-house entertainment, but the 

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most approved method is to engage a man for guide and campkeeper, 
with his team. This will cost about five dollars per day, added to 
which will be the board of the man and his horses. 

Unless one has local knowledge it will be cheap insurance against 
doubts as to locations and possible failure of sport, not to mention the 




PIN-TAIT. DUCK. 

Dafila Caudacuta. 

embarrassment of specially heavy game bags, when all one's activity is 
needed to cope with birds neither dead or disposed to be so. Merced is 
easy of access by rail, reasonable sport can be had with certainty, and a 
probability of something more. 

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TULARE COUNTY. 

This county as to its fauna is in close harmony with the adjoining 
county of Kern. It has similar high Sierra Mountain lands, with gla- 
cier and snow-fed trout streams, and its valley rivers and lakes and 
irrigation waters strikingly correspond with those of Kern. The flora is 
identical, unless it should be that Kern has no Sequoia gigantea,of which 
forest monarch Tulare has immense groves. Tulare also has some advan- 
tages in more extended parks of burr and live-oaks. Its mountain region 




■i laiiriMrffii '%!- 



'^mm^' 



^'^^^!^l?S^^^^' 



GRliEN-WINCrED TEAL. 

Afias Caroluiensis. 

is drained by the Kaweah .and Kings rivers. These create a rich field 
for sport with rod and gun. Bear, deer and animals of prey are to be 
found, and all the usual game birds of the Sierra— grouse, quail, pigeons, 
doves and larks^-and the streams richly stocked with gamiest of fish, one 
of them the noted Kern River Trout, (Salmo gairdneri gilherti). 

The line of Southern Pacific Company— Fresno to Porterville— will 
enable the sportsman to reach some suitable station from which he can 

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penetrate his chosen field. These are Sanger Junction, Essex, Porter- 
ville and others. Essex lies between Visalia and the mountains. From 
any of these places good sport can be had by reasonable pedestrianism, 
with a return each night, but if it is desired to penetrate the mountains, 
to visit its wonderful Sequoia parks and deep forest groves of mammoth 
coniferce, and to explore its canyons and waterfalls, an organized party 
should secure a competent guide with pack train, and enter upon the 
romantic experience of a lifetime. It is well nigh certain you would find 
yourself a pioneer in some favored place, with possibility of achieving 
immortality in the discovery and naming of a new variety of quadru- 




COYOTK. 

Canis Latrans. 

ped, biped or fish. Tulare's broad acres of valley cut across by rivers 
and canals, with famed Tulare Lake and many overflow ponds, make it 
an ideal place for game birds and water-fowl. Quail, pigeons, doves, 
larks, snipe, plover and rail are to be found almost everywhere, and on 
the waters and feeding-grounds, geese and ducks of all varieties known 
to California. The specially fine sporting region at and about Tulare 
Lake can be conveniently reached from either Tulare or Hanford stations 
of Southern Pacific Company. Tulare is 251 miles from San Francisco 

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FRESNO COUNTY. 

The sporting facilities of Fresno are in all respects similar to those of 
Kern and Tulare, with which latter county it is in political contact. It 
has a continuation of the mountain field northerly from that of Tulare, 
and the fauna and flora are identical. In the valley reasonable bags of 
ducks, snipe, plover, doves, larks and quail can be had, and trout in the 
flowing waters ; but the best grounds and streams are in the foothills and 
mountains. In a tract of woodland known as Pine Ridge (to be reached 




libbetu PhoU). 



MONGOI.IAN PHEASANT. 

Phaisanjis Mortgolicus. 

from Fresno) fine sport with rod and gun can be enjoyed. Quail are 
specially abundant, and to these may be added all varieties of game birds 
usually found in the Sierra foothills. Deer are plentiful, and no better 
sport need be asked for than one can enjoy with rod and line over the 
upper waters of Kings River and the San Joaquin. Nothing but the 
wide-spread sporting attractions of California prevents these higher lands 
of Fresno from becoming famous. 

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WAWONA 

Is a favorite resort for hunting and fishing, and as well for lovers 
of beautiful mountain scenery and an atmosphere that is balm to most 
of the ills of life. It is to be pleasantly reached by coaches— famous, 
roomy, observation ones, with four to six well-trained equines at the front — 
from Southern Pacific Company's Yosemite branch line at Raymond. 
This latter station is the rail terminus and 201 miles from San Francisco. 
Wawona is the over-night stopping-place for passengers en route to 
or from Yosemite via the Big Trees. The ample hotel and tributary 



RAINBOW TROUT. 
Salmo Irideus. 

cottages are well kept, and desirable quarters for a few days or for many 
of them. It stands on the bank of the south fork of the Merced, a large 
affluent of that stream, and is surrounded by a fine forest of pines. 
These are in great variety among them the white, yellow and sugar 
pine, and about two miles distant on an elevated plateau the famous 
Big Tree Reservation, its conservation and management connected with 
Yosemite Valley. This grove is a wonderful remnant of a primeval sequoia 

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gigantea forest, and in close companionship with these giants are others 
of sugar pine— some of them 300 feet to the topmost cone. The entire 
country about Wawona is richly wooded and watered, containing besides 
those already mentioned fine groves of redwoods, douglas spruce, white 
cedar, pitch pine, oaks, laurels, buckeye, manzanita, madrona, lilac, 
dogwood, syringas and azaleas. Such a forest mountain land, with 
abundant living water, ought to offer sport to huntsman and angler, and 
this one does so in ample measure. It has unrivaled scenic beauty, 




DKER. laoerruoio. 

Cervus Leucerus. 

woodland lakes and tarns, bubbling trout streams, inspiring waterfalls, 
and everywhere fish and game. The extensive strictly gun-preserved 
Yosemite Valley and Big Tree grove are no doubt to some extent 
feeders, by game overflow, to the surrounding country, adding to its 
sporting wealth. Bear can be found by those desirous of such acquain- 
tance; deer are reasonably plentiful; quail abundant, and the same is 
true of wild pigeons and the smaller game birds and squirrels, and trout 
in large variety. A visit to the nearby Yosemite Valley (half a day's 

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I^AKE AT WAWONA. 
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drive) added to a week or longer of sport at Wawona, would make a 
royal holiday in which the ladies of the social circle might fitly join. 

The climate is such as can be found only in the resinous, aromatic 
woodlands of the Sierra Nevada, and the water as pure as the upper- 
terrestrial heavens, from which it falls in the form of beautiful snow. 




EASTERN BROOK TROUT. 

Salvelinus Fontinalis. 

A most successful fish-hatchery is located near the hotel, and in itself is 
a guarantee against any depletion of the trout waters. Thomas Hill, 
the well-known artist and angler, reports a catch of forty pounds at a lake 
a short distance from the hotel during the early hours of a single morning. 
One of them weighed six pounds. 



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SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY— WEST SIDE. 

Bordering the river and beginning at Newman, 120 miles by rail of 
Southern Pacific Company from San Francisco, and extending southward 
to Mendota on the same railway line, covering a distance of more than 
fifty miles, can be found as rich a field for water-fowl shooting and for 
marshland game as the world need to produce. These lands are trav- 
ersed by the west-side line of Southern Pacific Company, and so abun- 




MAIvIvARD. 

Anas Boschas. 

dant are geese and ducks, they are steadily flushed by passing trains. 
Stops for sport can be made suitably at Newman, Volta, Los Banos, 
Dos Palos, Firebaugh or Mendota, and a short walk will reveal 
game birds in satisfactory numbers. The Los Banos Game Club has 
constructed a house for the use of its members at a siding between Los 
Banos and Dos Palos, at which trains stop on request or by signal. 

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During certain seasons, geese will be countless ; mallards, canvas- 
backs, teal, widgeon, pintail, snipe, plover and rail will fall to your 
gun almost at your pleasure. The country is a good one to shoot over, 
some of it covered by patches of irrigation overflow, but is not soft; and 
sagebrush can be successfully beaten for grouse, quail and other small 
game birds. 

Farm houses are easy of access for entertainment, and the railway 





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^Hb 


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UPPER SACRAMENTO RIVER. 

stations all have good hotels at which the charges are generally reason- 
able. Fish can be caught in numbers at the San Joaquin and include 
salmon, steeihead trout, striped bass, catfish and others. 



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KLAMATH LAKE AND WILLIAMSON RIVER. 

These remarkable trout waters are reached by a ninety-mile stage 
drive from Ager on Southern Pacific Company's Shasta Route, 387 miles 
from San Francisco. Anglers of more than national reputation report 
that they bear off the world's palm. Men who have lured trout 
from all other famous resorts visit Williamson River for a new sensation. 




PTARMIGAN. 

Lagopiis. 



Taber Photo. 



The variety is the Rainbow. Williamson drains the well-known 
Klamath marsh, a low-lying tract covering fifty square miles full of 
living springs. It flows southward, is joined by the Sprague from 
the east, and soon after their waters reach Upper Klamath Lake, 

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which has an area of more than 400 square miles, and in turn are 
poured into Lower Klamath Lake, and by the river of the same name 
reach the Pacific Ocean in Siskiyou county, it is an Indian reservation 
and a permit must be had for a visit. For best enjoyment a party should 
be organized with camp and commissary outfit. 

Mr. J. R. Moore, a noted authority on angling, contributes a most 
interesting article to the November, 1895, number of the iylmerican ^Angler 



^%M. 




GREY WOI.F. 

Cams Occidentalis. 



in which he pleasantly relates his experience during a two weeks visit to 
these waters. The point selected by Him was Chilliken's Bridge on the 
Williamson, a short distance above the junction of the Sprague. The 
arrival in the evening and while the campkeeper was engaged in 

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arranging for their home comforts, Mr. Moore took a light rod (734 oz.) 
and went to the stream to try for a fish to grace the initial meal. He 



adds : '* 1 soon had seven in my creel, running from U to 



pounds in 



weight, which I forthwith handed over to the cook." The next morning 
he caught one that weighed 10 pounds. He only fished mornings and 
evenings, and during his stay of two weeks caught 127 fish, of a total 
weight of 271 pounds. In these waters the abundance and qualities of 
the Rainbows, in iridescent glory, overarch the long list of feathered and 
fur-bearing game that of itself would otherwise make it a sportsman's 
paradise. Bear are to be had, and deer plentiful ; grouse and sagehens, 
quail, snipe, plover, geese and ducks to be bagged at the pleasure of the 
sportsman. Nothing outside the man himself can be wanting to 
supreme happiness. 




TRUCKEE RIVER. 



TRUCKEE, TAHOE, CONNER AND INDEPENDENCE. 

Here is a right royal line of sporting resorts. Esthetic tastes may be 
fed and broadened by wonderful, high mountain, river, lake and wood- 
land scenery. Nowhere have Nature's scenic beauties been more lavishly 
spread out. For lack of room some of them are placed on edge ; the 

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lakes fortunately are on a level, but the streams for the most part are 
in hurried search of such restfulness. 

Truckee is on the tumbling, foaming, musical river from which it takes 
its name, and is an important railway station of the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany, 209 miles east of San Francisco, and 14 miles from the summit of 
the Sierra Nevada on the eastward slope. It is a central point for fine 
hunting and fishing resorts and may wisely be made headquarters when 
one desires to take them all in. Excellent trout fishing can be had 




MOUNTAIN GROUSE. 
Tetrao Californica. 

in suitable pools of the river that borders the town, and at nearby Donner 
Lake choice angling is enjoyed, usually with agreeable company of the 
same craft. Eastern Brook trout having been planted in the lake, have 
found a congenial home and developed a gamy vigor that taxes the 
expert angler's best skill. Rainbow and the famous Cut-throat trout 
are also freely taken. 

Independence Lake is a body of beautiful mountain water closely 

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framed about by luxuriant conifers. It is reached by a stage drive of 
fourteen miles from Boca, on Southern Pacific Company's railway line 
nine miles eastward of Truckee. The road is excellent, a devious 
winding ride through fragrant forests. The Lake is two and one- 
half miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide with bold and 
rocky shores. The waters have been kept well stocked, and by enthu- 
siastic sportsmen are said to be alive with fish. An excellent hotel, with 
cottages for supplemental use, is a*feature of the place. Necessary boats 
are in good supply, with attendants and equipments if desired. Usually 
the fish are taken by trolling, but rod and line are also in much request ; 
whatever method is chosen satisfactory results are sure to follow. Almost 
all varieties of trout will reach your creel, but the principal are Cut- 
throat, Dolly Varden, Rainbow and Eastern Brook. Owing to its 
fine sporting qualities excellent provision for entertainment, its romantic 
situation and the pleasures of its approach, Independence Lake enjoys a 
rapidly growing popularity, and is a prime favorite with the ladies. 






MmF^^^: 




CUT-THROAT TROUT — LAKE) TAHOE. 

Salmo Mykiss. 



LAKE TAHOE. 

This is the home of Cut-throat trout, to which it has given the 
popular name of Tahoe. It is a noble body of water, at an ele- 
vation of about 7000 feet ; so large it justifies steamboat transit and 
acknowledges an allegiance divided between two States ; is of great 

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depth and crystalline purity, encompassed by forests of pine and snow- 
clad mountain peaks, and invites the angling world to come for entertain- 
ment. Its prolific waters have an enviable reputation. For more 
than thirty years they have been the chief market supply of San 
Francisco and other important marts, with many special shipments to 




SAGE COCK AND HEN. 

Centrocercus uphasiamis. 



Taber Photo. 



Eastern cities. It is true these immense calls upon it have served 
to. suggest assistance to Nature. During the season 1894 nearly one 
million fry of Cut-throat and of Rainbow were deposited in its waters by 
the Fish Commissioners of California, with a settled purpose to 
keep this necessary work in active operation up to any point needed in the 
future. Tahoe for all time is sure to remain the Mecca of anglers and 

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of those who can appreciate the most sublime terrestrial beauty. No 
lack of royal sport has ever been reported by the thousands who have 
sought for it here. 

Specially fine hotel accommodations are in large supply, and the 
transits by stages from Truckee and from Carson require but a short 
time and are full of interest. Ladies are always present, adding social 
attractions to the more robust ones of lake and mountain. The surpass- 




BARRACUDA. 

Sphyrcena argentea. 

ing excellence of the fishing overshadows all other interests, but fine 
sport may be had with the gun. Sagehens, grouse, quail, ducks, plover, 
snipe and squirrels are reasonably abundant, and bear and deer not 
difficult to find. 

The flora of Lake Tahoe on its arborescent side is of surprising 
wealth. Here is an abbreviated list : white, sugar, yellow and nut pine, 




Scomber vulgaris. 

douglas and hemlock spruce, tamarack and laurel, with oaks, maples, 
poplars, madronas, buckeyes and a great variety of flowering shrubs. 
To fish the waters of Lake Tahoe, and with dog and gun traverse 
the resinous conifer forests that clothe the encompassing mountain sides, 
would richly repay a transatlantic and transcontinental trip. 

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MONTEREY. 

This is the fashionable resort of the Pacific Coast, of which expe- 
rienced travelers write, **If you can visit but one place in California, let 
that one be Hotel del Monte at Monterey." It is no part of the purpose 
of this paper to speak in detail of caravansaries, except in so far as they 
may be tributary to the better enjoyment of sports by field, flood, and 
stream. It is, however, simply impossible to say anything of 
Monterey and its attractions without some mention of the central feature 
tliat gilds all the rest. Monterey is 126 miles from San Francisco by 




SAI.MON. 

Saltno quinnat. 

rail of Southern Pacific Company, and the distance covered in less than 
four hours. This historic town, around which circles most of the early 
ecclesiastical and* political movements of California, rests on elevated 
ground at the southern shoulder of the bay of Monterey, whose noble 
waters extend northwesterly a distance of fifty miles to the city 
of Santa Cruz, and from earliest recorded time have been noted for 
the abundance, variety and excellence of their fish. They teem 
with salmon that have followed the coast line southward from British 
Columbia and Oregon. Here they stop ; none are taken by anglers at 
any point south of Monterey. This bay has piscine attractions that 
seem irresistible. The most important of these, no doubt, is the 
abundant fish food, drawing to it all varieties of coast-line and 
deep-sea fish, and to these, cetacea may be added. The catch of 

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whales amounts to scores each year, often witnessed by spectators on 
the elevated beach. In numbers and sporting value, salmon lead the 
list, and are followed by barracuda, bonito, cod, mackerel, pampino, rock 
fish, king-fish, tunney, smelt and sardines. Most of these, except the tun- 
ney, which sometimes reach a weight of more than 300 pounds, are taken 
by pole and line ; but some of them are by market fishers entrapped in 
nets. The best approved method is by trolling, and the richest waters 
are from one to three miles from shore. The character of the bay is 
notably pacific, and is nearly always smooth as the proverbial mill- 




STRIPED BASS. 

Labrax linneatvs. 



pond. The usual catch to a three-hour troll for salmon would be 
from five to ten, aggregating from 75 to 150 pounds in weight, with 
proportionate fortune when other gamy fish are sought. Experienced 
boatmen with craft suitable for the service and all necessary appliances 
can be engaged on reasonable terms. With the gun, satisfactory sport 
can be had on the marshes for water fowl, plover, snipe and rail, and 
elsewhere for quail, pigeons, doves and larks. 

In the background rise the noble Santa Lucia mountains, celebrated 
tor wild sublimity, game and abundant trout water, including the rivers 
Carmel and Big and Little Sur. Deer are to be had and in unfre- 
quented places bear are not only common, but very plentiful. The 
arboreal flora of Monterey is specially attractive. Notably so the Mon- 
terey pine and the famous cypress, of which a most remarkable growth 

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may be found at Cypress Point. Hardly less wonderful are the live 
oaks— modest monarchs that had reached a ripe maturity before Colum- 
bus sailed from Palos— their low-lying branches, each larger than the 
bole of an ordinary tree, extend outward for scores of feet, now and again 
dropping some sturdy arm to earth support, like the banyan of Asia, except 
that the arm throws down no roots. 




SMELT. 
Osmerus Eperlanus. 



POMPANO. 

Trachynotus Carolinus, 



TOM COD. 

Morrhua Fruinosa. 



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SEA BASS. 
Centropnstris atrarms. 

SANTA CRUZ. 

Santa Cruz is only eighty miles by Southern Pacific Company's rail 
from San Francisco, and for many reasons has at all times been a place of 
popular resort from the metropolis. Sportsmen are especially welcome and 
are made to feel that they are so. It offers great variety of scenery of 
valley and mountain, woodland and plain, ocean beach and running 
brooks, and can easily induce a second visit by huntsman or angler. 
The bay fishing at Santa Cruz is almost identical with that at Monterey, 
and the troller can calculate with certainty on all the salmon and other 
ocean and estuary fish he may desire. Exceptional catches of salmon 
are sometimes made reaching twenty-five or thirty of an aggregate weight 
of 350 pounds to a single day of rod and line, but the sportsman can be cer- 
tain at all times of reasonable success. Fine trout streams in the moun- 




SEA PIKE. 

Esox marinui 



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SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS. 

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Tibbetts photo. 



tains are within easy reach. A specially excellent resort reached by Southern 
Pacific Company's trains to Boulder Creek, and thence by trails ten miles 
to Big Basin ; and also in Boulder Creek and Los Gatos Creek ; stops for 
these can be made at Los Gatos or Wrights or other convenient sta- 
tions. Water-fowl and marsh-land birds, quail, pigeons, doves, larks 
and squirrels are plentiful. Deer may be found in favorable places. At 
Big Tree station, by rail six miles from Santa Cruz, is a remarkable grove 
of redwoods. These are carefully preserved and have historic interest. 
The valleys and lower hills are agreeably clothed in oaks, pines, laurel, 
madrona and buckeye, and the mountains and their ravines and canyons 
with a dense growth of noble redwoods madronas and laurels. 




SAI.MON. 

Salmo qiiinnat. 

SHASTA COUNTY. 

UPPER SACRAMENTO, PITT, AND McCLOUD RIVERS AND CATHEDRAL 
AND OTHER LAKES. 
So far as the general world of sportsmen in its higher walks 
is concerned, no introduction to regal Mount Shasta and its kingdom 
is needed ; but for benefit of new arrivals in this Pacific sporting field, 
it may be said that this incomparable region is traversed for loo miles by 
the Shasta route of Southern Pacific Company, beginning at Redding, 
260 miles from San Francisco, and extending thence northward to Edge- 
wood and beyond. On this line, Sims is about midway, and is a point 

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much used for divergence by trail to clioice sporting lands and waters 
on the Sacramento and its affluents. 

Castle Crag is also a popular stopping place, due largely to the 
fine accommodations and cultivated society of Castle Crag Tavern, 
the pleasure of these being made to supplement and fully round up 
those of field and stream. 

Sisson, twenty-one miles farther north, rests on one of the buttresses 
of Mount Shasta and a favorite point of departure for its ascent. Here 




BI.ACK BEAR. 

Ursus atnericanus. 



Tibbets Photo. 



and everywhere for more than one hundred encircling miles the scenery 
is sublime in the highest degree. A dense growth of towering conifers 
forms a verdant setting for Mount Shasta and its glacial snows. Ice-cold 
translucent lakes and streams of hurrying waters are to be met in lavish 
profusion, all — all teeming with every variety of gamy salmon and 
trout; the Rainbow, Cut-throat, McCloud River [Salmo gairdneri s/iasta], 

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No-Shee [Salmo trideus stonei], Dolly Varden, Eastern Brook, Loch Leven 
[Salmo trutta levensis] and Steel-head [Salmo gairdneri]. This regal list 
is by no means drawn from a romancing imagination, but invoices 
the contents of creels and names the fish in waiting for the angler's 
skill. While reasonable sport may be had in waters flowing near 
the railway and its stations, more satisfactory results follow in the 




MCCLOUD RIVER. 

footsteps of a camping trip, with pack and riding animals and com- 
petent guide. In this nomadic way most bountiful lakes can be visited, 
and shady streams where the fish will compete for the lures you may offer. 
The cost of such a trip for each participant will be from ten dollars to 
twenty dollars per week, to be paid by you to the guide, who will 
furnish transportation facilities and all needful supplies and will act as 
cook and keeper of the camp. 

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Royal sport with the gun can be fitly sandwiched with that of rod 
and line. Bear are frequently seen, still more so deer, grouse, pigeons, 
quail, ducks and squirrels. It was forbidden to muzzle the corn- 
treading ox. The sportsman should feast on the captives of his skill. 
At close of day quail on toast to follow Rainbow trout, and in turn to be 
followed by fragrant Mocha, and the captivating Cuban leaf might 
tempt Lucullusto leave his stale banquet. 





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YELLOW-TAIL. 

Senola gigas. 
(282 lbs.— the catch of one clay with rod and reel.) 



Waite Hlioto. 



SANTA MONICA AND PORT LOS ANGELES. 

Good fishing sport in surf and by trolling has never been wanting at 
Santa Monica, and being only seventeen miles by rail of Southern Pacific 
Company from Los Angeles, the southern metropolis, with frequent 
trains, has heretofore been much resorted to. Pampino and other 

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YEI.I.OW TAIIv. 

Sertola gigas. 




PERCH OR SALMON GROUPER. 

Serra?ius. 




ROCK COD. 
Morrhua. 

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valuable fish were caught near shore, and the troller could secure all the 
varieties of deep-water fish obtainable elsewhere in southern waters. 
Now, however, a new and greatly prized attraction is gained by the con- 
struction of Port Los Angeles wharf, extending beyond the surf line to 
deep water, placing the angler in the midst of his game. With rod 
or with hand-line most satisfactory sport can be enjoyed from the 
outer end of the wharf, 4700 feet from shore. Fish can be caught at all 
seasons, but are most abundant in warm weather. The use of rod, reel 
and line is much more popular than the hand-line ; but for very large 
fish, weighing ten to forty pounds, with all except the skilled the 
hand-line becomes a necessity. The varieties caught from the wharf 




Osmerus eperlaiius. 

include smelt, rock-bass, rock-cod, flounders, halibut, tom-cod, mackerel, 
yellow-fin and yellow-tail, sea trout, sea-bass, perch, pampino and 
sculpin, and by trolling from boat, bonita, barracuda, rock-bass, sea- 
bass and yellow tail. About six miles northward by the Coast line a fine 
canyon may be found, with good trout streams for the angler, and deer, 
quail, doves, larks and ducks in great abundance for the gun. 

Hotel Arcadia offers pleasant headquarters to the sportsman and his 
family who may suitably witness and partake of his enjoyments. 

SANTA CATALINA ISLAND. 

This marvelous sea-fishing resort is reached from Los Angeles by 
Southern Pacific Company's San Pedro line of twenty-two miles, and 
thence by steamboat about the same distance to Avalon, on Santa Cata- 
lina Island. Experts have reported that these waters are unrivaled for 
sea-fish sporting. The island seems to have been a fashionable resort 

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l-i.r.' ,, » .-^J~hi^7,:i.7 




JEW FISH OF SANTA CATAUNA. -STaite Photo. 



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for fish long ages before it became such for the nobler race that sports 
with them. The waters, some of them, are always land-locked and 
quiet. Sitting in your boat on their unruffled surface, the bottom that 
lies thirty to sixty feet below you appears to be within easy read, of 
your arm. Fish of all colors, sizes, and degrees of table excellence may 
be seen awaiting your skill. The favorite method is by trolling, and 
you will catch specimens of all Pacific Coast varieties except the salmon, 
which, having a decided preference for glacial seas, stops short in its 
migrations whenever the temperature shows a notable rise, it is by 




FI^YING FISH — SANTA CATALINA ISIvAND. 
Exocetus caloplerus. 



M'aite Photo, 



no means an uncommon achievement to hook and land a fish whose 
weight exceeds that of the captor. Not infrequently a day's catch of 
yellowtail and other desirable fish will aggregate a weight of 250 pounds 
— sometimes rising to those figures twice told. 

A visit to Santa Catalina Island will give a new experience to the 
veteran angler no less than to the novice. For the gun wild goats, 
quail and other birds can be had. 

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WII.D GOAT — SANTA CATAUNA ISr,\ND. 

Capra. 



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OBLIGATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED. 

In the preparation of this paper much valuable assistance has been 
received from artists, and there has been a purpose to make a permanent 
record of it in each case ; but thanks in such form cannot be given to 
others who have taken a lively interest in the work, and without whose 
help it could have attained no measure of excellence. Of these should 
be named The Honorable Board of Fish Commissioners of the State of California, 
whose admirable files of press articles, covering all the game resorts or 
the State, were freely opened to inspection, and as well its cases of 
mounted specimens. 

To Trofessor T)avid Starr Jordan, acting as President of the Academy of 
Science, unstinted praise is due for freely opening its valuable ava fauna 
cases to facilitate the art work of the paper. 

To Mr. J. R. Chace, the well-known publican and sportsman of Santa 
Cruz, the publishers and readers are indebted for the fine illustration of 
salmon. Upon a telegraphic suggestion to him that a sample was wanted 
for the camera he at once went out upon the bay and thereafter ex. 
pressed to San Francisco the choicest specimen of a catch that exceeded 
half a score. Anglers desiring royal sport should make his acquaintance. 

To CMr. H, E. Skinner of 416 Market Street, San Francisco, thanks are 
due for valuable specimens and still more valuable facts, given by him 
for benefit of brother sportsmen. 

To Mr.J.B. Ingiiglia, Manager of American Union Fish Company, 
for his intelligent zeal in search of specimens of rare marine forms of fish. 

To H. Liehes &r Co. of San Francisco, for noble specimens of fur-bear 
ing carnivora. 



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GAME AND FISH LAWS OF CALIFORNIA. 

Sportsmen will do well to make a note of the following quotations 
from the Statutes of California, placing certain limitations on their right 
to kill or to have in possession as follows : 

Valley Quaill 

Bob White I 

Partridge | May be killed, beginning October 15th and closing 

Robin I February 15th of the following year. 

Wild Duck 

Rail J 

Mountain Quail | May be killed, beginning August T5th and closing 
Grouse 1 February 15th following. 

Doves i^^^ be killed, beginning July ist and closing February 15th, 
j next following. 

Sales of any of the above allowed only from November 15th to 
January 15th next following. 

Male Deer may be killed, beginning July 15th and closing October 15th. 

Female Deer 

Spotted fawn 

Antelope 

Elk 

Mountain Sheep 

Humming Birds 

and all Song Birds 

Mongolian Pheasants I ^'^'^"^ ""'^^^"' ^^' ^^''' ^'^'^ ^'^"^ ^^^'^ ^^th, 

J (Must not be taken except with hook and line, and from April ist 
j to November ist of the same year. 

04. I u J -r 4. May be taken in tide water, with rod and line at all 
Steel-head Trout r j_. 

j times. 

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Killing prohibited at all times. 



9t ■ H R I Must not be taken of a weight less than 3 pounds, nor 
J with nets of less than 7K inch mesh. 

Salmon \ Must not be taken by seines in public waters between sunrise 

Shad ■■ of each Saturday and sunset of the following Sunday ; 

Striped Bass) nor must such seine have meshessmaller than 7,'^ inches. 

<^ ' Must not be taken between the thirty-first day of August and 

J the first day of the following November. 

I May be taken, beginning September ist and ending March 31st 
Sturgeon of the following year ; but must not at any time be taken 

j of a size less than three feet in length. 

Lobster (May be taken, beginning July 15th and ending May 15th of 
Crawfish j following year. 

Shotguns of larger caliber than lo-gauge are prohibited to be used or 
in possession in any field or marsh. 

Sportsmen should understand that the above laws extend to all parts 
of the State, but that the privileges granted may be narrowed by action 
of counties within the limits of such — may be narrowed, but not 
broadened. It will be prudent to examine the local laws touching any 
resort to be visited. 



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Persons desiring more of detail in rega' d to matters herein treated, or 
of extended information concerning California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona 
or New Mexico, can readily obtain the same by calling upon or address- 
ing the undernamed : 

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL — 4 Montgomery Street. 

T. H. Goodman General Passenger Agent 

R. A. DoNAiyDSON, Jas. Horsburgh, Jr., H. R. Judah 

Assistant General Passenger Agents. 

NEW ORL.EANS, L.A.— cor. Natchez and Magazine Streets. 

S. F. B. Morse General Passenger Agent 

NEW YORK, N. Y.-349 Broadway and 1 Battery Place. 

Edwin Hawi,ey Assistant General Traffic Manager 

Iv. H. Nutting Kaslern Passenger Agent 

BOSTON, MASS.— 9 State Street. 

B. E. Currier New England Agent 

PHILADELPHIA, PA— 49 South Third Street. 

R. J. Smith Agent 

BALTIMORE, MD.— 309 East German Street. 

B. B. Barber Agent 

SYRACUSE, N. Y.— 129 South Franklin Street. 

F. T. Brooks New York State Agent 

CHICAGO, ILL.— 338 Clark Street 

W. G. Neimyer General Western Agent 

BUFFALO, N. Y.— Room 220 Ellicott Square. 

W. J, Berg Traveling Passenger Agent 

PITTSBURG, PA.— 301 Telephone Building, Seventh Avenue. 

Geo. G. Herring Commercial Agent 

CINCINNATI, OHIO— Chamber of Commerce Building 

W. H. Connor Commercial Agent 

ST. LOUIS, MO.— 330 North Fourth Street. 

V. B. Primm Commercial Agent 

NEW ORLEANS, LA. 

O. p. McCarty General Traveling Passenger Agent 

H. B. Abbott City Passenger Agent 

ATLANTA, GA. —18 Wall Street. 

W. R. Fagan Traveling Passenger Agent 

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SAVANNAH, GA.— 6 Bull Street. 

C. W. MuRPHEY Traveling Passenger Agent 

MONTGOMERY, ALA. 

G. W. Ely. Traveling Passenger Agent 

NASHVIL,I.E, TENN— 4 Noel Block. 

R. O. Bean Traveling Passenger Agent 

HOUSTON, TEXAS. 

L. J. Parks Assistant General Passenger Agent 

W. A. ReinhardT.. Traveling Passenger Agent 

GALVESTON, TEXAS. 

J. R. Christian Commercial Agent 

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. 

C. Fahey Commercial Agent 

EAGLE PASS, TEXAS. 

C. K. DUNI.AP General Passenger and Ticket Agent M. I. Ry. 

EL PASO, TEXAS. 

T. E. Hu^;T Commercial Agent 

DENVER, COLO.— 1113 Seventeenth Street. 

Wm. K. McAllister General Agent 

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH— ^14 Dooly Block. 

D. R. Gray General Agent 

HELENA, MONTANA. 

E. A. StiefeIv Traveling Passenger Agent 

TACOMA, WASH.— 948 Pacific Avenue. 

Thos. A. Graham District Passenger Agent 

SEATTLE, WASH —Starr Boyd Building. 

Thos. A. Graham District Passenger Agent 

PORTLAND, OR. 

E. P. Rogers Assistant General Passenger Agent 

J. B. KiRKLAND District Passenger Agent 

OAKLAND, CAL. 

M. E. DeCORA, Seventh and Broadway Agent 

J. H. Wright, Sixteenth Street Agent 

SAN JOSE, Cal. 

C. Haydock, cor. Second and Santa Clara Streets Agent 

STOCKTON, CAL. 

C. J. Jones Agent 

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SACRAMENTO, CAI.. 

C. J. Ei,us ' Agent 

SANTA BARBARA, CAL,. 

John Simpson Commercial Agent 

I.OS ANGELES, CAI..— 289 South Spring Street. 

J. M. Crawi^EY Assistant General Passenger Agent 

SAN BERNARDINO, CAI.. 

J. A. Deyarmon Agent 

RIVERSIDE, CAL,. 

G. B. OCHELTREE Agent 

PASADENA, CAL. 

I. N. Todd ^ Agent 

SAN DIEGO, CAL.-869 Fifth Street. 

G. H. McMii,i,AN Commercial Agent 

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 

G. W. Fi^ETCHER General Agent 



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